War prompts distress symptoms in Israeli Blind Snake
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During a series of explosions in a recent eruption of violence between Israel and Gaza, the metabolic rate of a Syrian Blind Snake Xerotyphlops syriacus peaked acutely, and its breathing pattern changed. This is the first record of a wild animal’s real-time physiological response to the noise of an incoming rocket attack and highlights the gap in our understanding of how anthropogenic noise – and military activity in general – affects individual wildlife.
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